Do You Know Me?


How much time will pass?
How much more will we let pass by?
How many more beautiful words
Will not pass our lips; and then we die?

A smile, a look, a grin, a blush.
Why are these confined to syrupy
Love stories, between the only
Two people who are permitted to
Be affectionate?

Why is love romance?
Why is gratitude unseemly?
Why am I the only one?
Why does so much go unexpressed?

There are not enough words
Nor the right kind
That express so great a love
That only gets bigger with time?

What are you afraid of?
Is this emotion uncool?
You know where I stand,
But not who I am.

A gift made vile
A touch made wrong
A smile misunderstood
My heart called unclean.

How can you say what I am
when you don't know youself?
Why must you categorize
And put me on a shelf?

Are you afraid of the time?
The effort? The hope? The love?
You fear what you do not know
But you only know fear.

Perhaps I am too trusting
Maybe I am too willing to
Lay it all out on the table.
Could it be you've never seen this before?

I could wait forever
Since forever is how long it will take
For you to know me
And know why I am.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime
to learn it doesn't take a lifetime.





©2001 Cobalt Blue Tony - Anthony B. Annechino